Memories of Murder
Movie • 2003 •
Report1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.
This movie contains 39 potentially triggering events.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Some of the corpses are shown to have been strangled
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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It's implied that Kwang-ho was abused by his father
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Not on-screen, but all the murders are around women being brutalized and much of the evidence confirms this
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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JohnCena
Not in a domestic abuse sense- characters are questioned/tortured by police and manipulated/gaslighted.
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OscarLeatherdale
The police brutally beat up a child in order to get information
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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wallflowers
A cop gets drunk after an interrogation doesn’t go well and later in the scene gets into a bar fight
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Are there bugs?
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HeyItsGroose
Insects shown around dead bodies, as well as in less disturbing circumstances
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is there pedophilia?
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A child is sexually assaulted off-screen, and the aftermath is discussed but not shown explicitly. There is also an earlier scene of a character lifting up the shirt of a young girl he doesn't know, but it's to help her put a bandaid on, though this may still be distressing for some viewers
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The whole film centres around rape cases, and implies some very disturbing sexual things.
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There are brief clips from scenes before and after a rape has taken place, but nothing explicit is shown on-screen
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Makeshift mouth gags are used multiple times.
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Is someone burned alive?
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One of the characters has burn scars from an incident where he almost burned alive
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Is there amputation?
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Only mentioned, never seen
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Is there a hanging?
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HonestlyJon
Not in a murder or suicide sense
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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wallflowers
Nothing shown on screen but most of the victims are described as having objects put into their genitals, there are multiple scenes where examiners take out these objects, but the genitals themselves are not shown
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Is someone tortured?
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HonestlyJon
Both from the criminal and the police
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Brenna
Someone is kicked down some stairs after doing something they weren't supposed to do
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Is someone stabbed?
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Samarama
technically. a man's leg is impaled with a rusty nail attached to a wooden board. shown but not in graphic detail
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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JohnCena
A middle school girl and teenage boy both die.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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A child is sexually assaulted off-screen
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Death
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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coochiecop
dont know if this counts but a character is mentally disabled, when they talk about it they call him "slow" when he's being questioned another man kicks him real bad, through out the film this character is not treated nicely at all. the act itself and how they treat him made me personally really uncomfy
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Is the r-slur used?
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Brenna
I watched it on Hulu, which used the r-word in the subtitles when people in the movie were talking about a disabled character
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Family
Does a family member die?
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A side character's son is killed
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
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There is one scene where a character is being chased and someone jumps out at them from a field
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Is there a shower scene?
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Brenna
There IS a bathhouse scene, though
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Many scenes take place near or in rice paddies
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Are there mannequins?
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ValentinaVi
A passed out drunk character wakes up and vomits in a bucket. Later on when the last corpse is found a policeman vomits in the forest.
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Lots of spitting.
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Law Enforcement
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The Police brutally beat and torture people illegally, including a child this is not glorified at all
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Loss
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Yes, when administering vaccines, but it’s not graphic
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Not technically at a hospital, instead at a doctor's office, but it ticks off all the boxes of what would make someone uncomfortable with a hospital
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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EmmaZimmerman
Not specifically, but a neurodivergent character is referred to as the "r-word" multiple times and is tortured but not because of his condition.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Anonymous
A victim who escaped lives in fear of the attacker finding her.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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takver
Great shot at the end of the movie--character looks directly at the camera.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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HonestlyJon
A lot of it, specifically directed by a mentally underdeveloped adult man
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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OscarLeatherdale
No, But a man wears women lingerie, and it is shown to make the viewers laugh
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Race
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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OscarLeatherdale
Brief Sex Scene from behind, man says "I think it fell out"
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Sickness
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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OscarLeatherdale
a incredibly disturbing and infuriating ending, based on real life
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Is someone hit by a car?
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HonestlyJon
A train, more specifically
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Is there gun violence?
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Attempted gun violence
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